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This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is the expanded and improved 2nd edition of the author’s self-published volume with the same title, based on revised and adapted posts on the author’s Languagelore blog. Each vignette calls attention to points of grammar and style in contemporary American English, especially cases where language is changing due to innovative usage. In every case where an analysis contains technical or recondite vocabulary, a Glossary precedes the body of the essay, and readers can also consult the Master Glossary which contains all items glossed in the text. The unique form of the book’s presentation is aimed at readers who are alert to the peculiarities of present-day American English as they pertain to pronunciation, grammar, and style, without “dumbing down” or compromising the language in which the explanations are couched.  
Table of Contents:
Preface.- Acknowledgments.- About the Author.- Preface to the First Edition.- The Physiognomy of Speech.- Chapter One: Sounds.- Chapter Two: Meanings.- Chapter Three: Style.- Chapter Four: Syntax.- Chapter Five: Theory.- Chapter Six: Poetics.- Chapter Seven: The Psycholinguistic Pathos of Everyday Life.- Epilegomenon.- Master Glossary.- Index. 

About the Author :
Michael Shapiro, Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Semiotic Studies at Brown University, was born in 1939 in Yokohama (Japan) and grew up speaking Russian, Japanese, and English. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1952 and was educated in Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. His career as a teacher and scholar spans over half a century. He has taught at several universities, including the University of California (Los Angeles and Berkeley) and Princeton, and served as president of the Charles S. Peirce Society in 1991. He is the co-author, with his late wife the medievalist and Renaissance scholar Marianne Shapiro, of Figuration in Verbal Art (1988) and The Sense of Form in Literature and Language (2nd ed., 2009).


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  • ISBN-13: 9783319516813
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 517
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Second Edition
  • ISBN-10: 3319516817
  • Publisher Date: 07 Mar 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: Springer Texts in Education
  • Width: 155 mm


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